ferngehalten
[ˈfɛʁnɡəˌhaltn̩]
The verdict
“ferngehalten” is uncommon German (frequency #51,301 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,301
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs fernhalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-ferngehalten · ferngehalten · German
ferngehalten · rank #51,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,301
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH felsigen
Nearest frequency peer: felsigen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ferngehalten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Faustschlag
Faustschlag
48,704 corpus weight
- feilschen
feilschen
48,703 corpus weight
- Feldherrn
Feldherrn
48,702 corpus weight
- felsigen
felsigen
48,701 corpus weight
- ferngehalten
ferngehalten
48,700 corpus weight
- fertigstell…
fertigstellen
48,698 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ferngehalten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferngehalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛʁnɡəˌhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ferngehalten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ferngehalten is uncommon German at frequency #51,301 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛʁnɡəˌhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs fernhalten".
No misspelling variants are generated for ferngehalten in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ferngehalten, spelled F-E-R-N-G-E-H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs fernhalten
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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